I have a mental "white list" but haven't put it on paper. Maybe white lists are like Vatican secrets, never acknowledged or revealed. In practice, all of us probably have them.
Good choices.This is my "white list" from Worship III.
And what about the 39% of Worship IV that is completely unuseable?
Regarding Eat this Bread, it would normally be sung during the Communion procession, when most people don't sing verses. The takeaway idea? Bread.
Regarding form in St Thomas Aquinas, it's an enormous theme for him, both regarding creation and recreation.
Regarding metrical variants: it is perfectly conventional to reverse the accents in the first foot of an iambic line.
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